[Russian characters:] Bolshoi Ballet School.

(Ballet.) ZHDANOV (L. [Leonid])

[Russian characters:] Bolshoi Ballet School.

Description: FIRST EDITION, monochrome photographs thorughout (performance, rehearsal, etc.), small spot to bottom corner of prelims, [unpaginated], 4to, original quarter beige cloth with white boards, the upper board with monochrome photograph, backstrip lettered in black, very grently rubbed with some light handling, very good

Publication Details: Moscow: Planet, 1974

Notes: Inscribed on the flyleaf, beneath a small sketch of two dancers: 'To Hans and Terence, from Maris, 1974' - this being Maris Liepa, one of the company's stars, who has also supplemented the page of facsimile signatures with his own original, dated Moscow '74. The recipients were Terence Hodgkinson, Keeper of the Department of Sculpture at the V&A and director of the Wallace Collection, and his partner Hans Schneider.